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From Expense to Excellence: Transforming ITOps in 2023 through Strategic IT cost optimization

Most organizations view their tech and network operations center and their budgets as simply the cost of running their internal and external IT services. However, through IT cost optimization, you can improve how your Ops center team responds to service issues and save valuable resources too. So, what specifically is IT cost optimization?

How To Transition To Cloud Cost Optimization 2.0

But many businesses don’t have insight into where that money goes and whether or not they’re pricing their products accordingly. CloudZero Founder and CTO Erik Peterson sat down with Erik Carlin, Founder and CPO at ProsperOps, to talk about the transition in cloud cost optimization from 1.0 to 2.0. They explored what data engineering teams need to make informed buying decisions, how to turn data into actionable intelligence, and why you should view cloud costs as an opportunity for ROI.

Stop Overspending and Optimize Your Cloud Costs with Advanced Anomaly Detection

“Time is money” couldn’t be truer than in managing cloud costs. By way of proactive anomaly detection, a chance is given to save time that could have been spent on issue recognition and resolution. Anomaly detection for the Cloud can be tricky since there can be changes in prices & data on billing history anytime. Not to mention, seasonality can mess things up as well.

35 Best Cloud Monitoring Tools (Updated By Category)

The purpose of cloud monitoring is to identify, observe, track, and manage cloud infrastructure components and services. Cloud monitoring helps organizations ensure their services meet customer expectations of performance, availability, and security. Companies also use cloud monitoring to learn how users interact with their business websites, applications, and other digital touchpoints.

Azure Cost Attribution by Subscription with Kentik Cloud

Maximize your network efficiency and cost management with Kentik Cloud. This video shows how Kentik Cloud's custom dashboards enable you to identify the bandwidth usage associated with each Azure subscription. Learn how to accurately allocate Azure costs to individual teams or business units, and track usage-based performance issues directly to the source. Empower your organization by aligning your hybrid cloud networking with your business needs through the comprehensive insights provided by Kentik Cloud.

Cloud Expenditure - A Storm is Brewing

Expenditure on cloud computing services reached a mammoth 225 billion dollars in 2022. Companies start their cloud-native journeys with the best intentions and consume the many benefits including: But current cloud expenditure growth levels are unsustainable for many organizations and with 82% of organizations investing in FinOps staff it shows that cloud expenditure is top of mind in the c-suite.

AWS ECS pricing optimization: Maximizing cost efficiency with CloudSpend

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is an extremely scalable and high-performing container orchestration solution that allows for the effortless execution, termination, and administration of Docker containers within a cluster. As more organizations embrace containerization, optimizing the costs of running containerized applications is essential, especially when using managed services like Amazon ECS.

Reduce Cloud Spend With Engineering-Led Optimization - Not Just Discount Hunting

CloudZero’s research has determined that as many as 60% of SaaS business leaders feel their cloud spend is higher than it should be. Considering cloud spend is a dominant portion of a SaaS company’s operating costs, unexpectedly high cloud bills can be a significant problem. While many SaaS leaders use discount plans to stem the bleeding, we believe the better solution lies with giving your engineers the tools to track and optimize costs as they build.

AWS Instance Types Explained: When To Use Each

You might wonder how companies using Amazon Web Services waste more than $10 billion a year. It’s easy to ask, “why don’t they just reduce their spending?” Well, it’s because there's more to it than that. AWS offers a staggering amount of options — over 200 different services, for example. Among those, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) provides a further 300 AWS instance types spread over five unique instance families.

Pepperdata with Ash Munshi and Kirk Lewis: AWS Startup Showcase, Season 3, Episode 2

Hosted by SiliconAngle and theCUBE, Pepperdata CEO Ash Munshi walks through the history of Pepperdata as well as the importance of cloud cost optimization in the world of cloud computing. Also, Senior Solution Architect Kirk Lewis gives a demo of our two solutions: Capacity Optimizer Classic—which is designed for DevOps—and Capacity Optimizer Next Gen, which focuses on the financial side of optimizing the cloud.